British gym owning couple and two friends jailed for manufacturing and supplying steroids.

"Four people have been sentenced at Derby Crown Court following a county-wide drugs operation.

Neil and Toni XXXXX, Ian XXXXXXXXX and Ian XXXXXXXX were all sentenced at court today (Friday, May 29) after they were charged with a range of drugs offences.

The group were among 17 people arrested following the execution of drugs warrants at 16 homes and three businesses in Matlock, Chesterfield, Derby and Buxton on Wednesday, July 2 and Thursday, July 3 2008."

"The five were charged with offences including manufacturing unlicensed medicine, supplying class C steroids, conspiracy to market unlicensed medicines, conspiracy to produce unlicensed medicines and drugs possession."

Original bust story from July.

"Neil XXXXX produced unlicensed slimming and body-building supplements from Fitness Forum, in Matlock – within a few hundred metres of County Hall.

The 39-year-old also manufactured the illegal medicines at another gym he owned in Chesterfield called Pro Flex, where he also sold steroids."

He was jailed for two years at Derby Crown Court yesterday. Three others who helped him either manufacture or sell the drugs were also sentenced.

XXXXX had a machine that created capsules of the drugs in a secure room at the Matlock gym. A price list in the two gyms included the unlicensed products, said David Herbert, prosecuting.

The court heard how XXXXX's wife, Toni, had helped her husband with the financial administration and marketing of the products for their company, Slim Magic"



Intro from the slimmagic site the couple ran from 2004 until 2008.

They had two herbal diet capsule products one called CALAREX and the other DYMEPHEDRA and also a carb blocker product called PHASE-2. I suspect the CALAREX actually contained "silbutramine" ( the API in Reductil ) and that their DYMEPHEDRA product really contained "ephedrine hcl", the exact details of what they were doing has not been released to the press.

One of the two friends Ian XXXXXXXXX, 43, who owned a legal nutritional products company, appears to have conspired with XXXXX to manufacture either injectable steroids or methyl testosterone capsules. ( the press release is a little vague ).

"The four defendants admitted offences that included conspiring to market unlicensed medicines; conspiring to produce unlicensed medicines; conspiring to manufacture unlicensed medicines and conspiring to supply Class C drugs, steroids.

Stephen Cobley, for Ratcliffe, said the defendant was not operating a "back street venture". Instead he believed the medicines to be legal and so recklessly committed the crime rather than deliberately.

But Mr Cobley said his client could not say the same for the anabolic steroids he had been supplying. Jonathan Carroll, for Neil Ogden, said his client accepted selling steroids at the Chesterfield gym but not the Matlock one."